Introducing the Skorpio

During the Svilupparty and the GameOver events we had the occasion of watching real people playing the game prototype , this manner we got a lot of suggestions from them and from other developers too.

We will take seriously in count those suggestions and we will change some aspect of the game itself. Game-play will be simplified and much well defined, we will set a clear objective in order to finish each level, the name of the game may be changed and so on, stay tuned.

The game suffered of a long stop period due to a series of project we had to deliver to our clients (hey they pay us for that), now we got again some time to dedicate to our creature, and, speaking about creatures, here the last creature just coming from the explosive mind of Clelio: the Skorpio! It seems to be a very aggressive enemy, it will be a tough cookie for our little yellow car.

Hi Louis. I believe it’s a nice idea. EvilRat…. o my god.. another challenge 😀 tomorrow I will talk about this idea with the team. But, before, we have to fix a little problem about the game, so, it will take a little bit of time to bw done. Thanks!

Nice catch Luis, last link you posted is kind of car that could fit great into the game, it only needs some organic details to be added, but, when you wrote rat rods in Clelio’s mind popped out a car with a rat’s muzzle on the front and a long thin tail on the rear, I know for sure :-D, so, I predict several long working sessions for Clelio.

I want to know the story of the undead rods like a mad scientist was creating creatures into vehicles and hell broke loose and they went on a killer rampage and it’s up to you to stop them and i hope this game will have cutscenes how cool does that idea sound?

there will be a storyline underlying the game. An infection coming from outer space zombifies the machines of the world, an eccentric scientist builds a weapon, starting from a city car, for cleaning up infected areas and for scrapping mutated vehicles. There wil be an intro for sure and, hopefully, cut scenes between levels if we have enough budget and time.

Alias runner was the name of the game while it was under development, red car and evening sky, then it become ffx runner for the final release, yellow car and daylight sky. Are you curious about the meaning of ffx? Well, that time the logo of our company was the written words of our name with the two green F and the red X ( oFFicine piXel ) so, those characters was flashing out from the logo in some way. This was the genesis of it. After a while, because the game became quite popular, miniclip bought from us a rebranded version of the game that become on the run.

We are aware of that, someone stolen the game during final stage of development and spreaded it on the web, we offered the new version of the game to those websites was hosting it, but some of them, despite the fact we offered it for free and with many bugfixes, preferred keep up the stolen version. It’s not spanish but italian, we are an italian company.

The eyeball was the logo of the company comissioned the game, unfortunately they suddently shut down despite the fact they was a big telecom company, without paying for the game, so, we decided of finish the game on our own and release it for free.
The property race was developed as advergame by us for a real estate company based in London. Louis, you are a real expert about our games 😀

Also I found a sequel to alias runner alias runner 2 apocalypse have you heard of that? If you can find the game and play it for yourselfs. Also why can’t you sue the people for stealing alias runner with the evening sky and the red car?

the OP on the plate is fo Officine Pixel while 1138 is a homage to the first George Lucas movie: THX 1138 (I had to ask to Davide who modeled the car)

Alias Runner 2 Apocalypse was made by fog.com, at the beginning they asked us to make such game, but, just because they was one of the website haven’t removed the stolen version of the game, we refused of working with them. After that, they probably arranged with someone else.
Sue people in another country, or worst, in another continent is an extremely expensive activity without guarantee of any return back, we are not Sony or Disney 😉

Skorpio will be bigger than the player’s car but not that big as the grincar.
Louis, are you english native speaking, if so, you could give us your opinion on some new titles candidates we have selected.

This is kind of a weird idea are you able to make merchandise to promote your games? Like for example model cars from ffx runner, blacktop runner and undead rods? Also make shirts of the officine pixel logo on it. I know this is a weird idea but is it possible you to do it?

I really seem to like your officine pixel games….
Can you tell me some other games that you worked for? as I like to try them… Other than games in your website…
And also as you’re an Italian company, why not work together with SBS? (Silent bay Studios)… Check their site… They also work for other companies like you… their games are good too….
I would be really happy to know your publishing games other than your site so I can play them too. I’m really a FFX and SBS lover!!!
thanks…
Desh

Hi Deshan, thank you for your appreciation. In past we mostly worked for edutainment products that was sold on CD-ROM or DVD mainly for italian market, some titles was translated to german romen chinese and spanish. Currently, games we make for our clients are mainly for advergame and promotion. We was not aware of SBS, thank you for suggestion.